Badger, do you know how many cat attacks have occurred on people armed with .22s? What you say about the drug addicts is true but I suspect if the world goes into survival mode the drug traffic industry may dry up. Won't be much profit in it when all I have to give you for a kilo of marajuana is three mushrooms and some pine nuts.

There is a fundamental difference in our thinking. You, I believe, are trying to prepare for a very rare and UNlikely possibility and I am trying to prepare for guaranteed eventualities.

And no matter what you or I do, there is always the possibility one of us will be bitten by a rattlesnake or smacked in the head with a rock by some guy who jumps on us from behind a bush.

Survival will be something of a game of chance. I worry more about running out of bullets than having the biggest gun out there.